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St Pancras 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Section II.- GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Hospital Accommodation.
A. Fever and Small Pox.—Hospital accommodation is provided by the London County
Council, who now control the various institutions previously provided by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
B. Tuberculosis.— For patients suffering from this disease Institutional accommodation is
provided through the London County Council.
C. General, Children's and other Hospitals.—
The following are situated within the Borough. The St. Pancras and Highgate
Hospitals are primarily intended for residents of the Borough. St Margaret's
Hospital admits cases of the kind specified from the whole of the metropolitan
area, but the use of the various general and special voluntary hospitals is by no
means confined to residents either of this Borough or of the metropolitan area.
On the other hand, hospitals situated outside the Borough are largely used by
St. Pancras residents.
Hospitals. Number of Beds.
London County Council General Hospitals.
St. Pancras Hospital, King's Road 384
Highgate Hospital, Dartmouth Park Hill 554
London County Council Special Hospital.
St. Margaret's Hospital, Leighton Road (for ophthalmia
neonatorum and congenital syphilis in children) 60
General and Special Voluntary Hospitals.
General. 414
University College Hospital, Gower Street {Obstetric 85
Royal Ear 41
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road 281
National Temperance Hospital, Hampstead Road 152
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, Euston Road 105
West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Regent's Park 78
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Endsleigh Gardens... 76
Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road 78
Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, Judd Street . 51
Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Fitzroy Square. 22
St. Saviour's Hospital, Osnaburgh Street 21
North-West London Hospital, Bayham Street
St. Pancras Dispensary, Oakley Square
London Skin Hospital, Fitzroy Square Out-
Western Skin Hospital, Hampstead Road patients
British Dentists' Hospital, Camden Road . only.
London Foot Hospital, Fitzroy Square
British Hospital for Nervous Disorders, Camden Road
British Red Cross Society Clinic for Rheumatism, Peto Place